Walt Whitman Quotes, Death Quotes, Spiritual Quotes

I announce the great individual, fluid as Nature, chaste, affectionate, compassionate, fully armed; I announce a life that shall be copious, vehement, spiritual, bold, And I announce an end that shall lightly and joyfully meet its translation.

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Have you not learned the most in your life from those with whom you disagreed - those who saw it differently from you?

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Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.

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Future years will never know the seething hell and the black infernal background, the countless minor scenes and interiors of the secession war; and it is best they should not. The real war will never get in the books.

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I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion's sake.

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Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.

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These are the days that must happen to you.

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Be not dishearten'd -- Affection shall solve the problems of Freedom yet; Those who love each other shall become invincible.

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O to be self-balanced for contingencies, to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.

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We arrange our lives-even the best and boldest men and women that exist, just as much as the most limited-with reference to what society conventionally rules and makes right.

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I am an acme of things accomplished, and I an encloser of things to be.

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The work for giants...to serve well the guns!

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When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd / And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night, / I mourn'd, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.

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Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.

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Our leading men are not of much account and never have been, but the average of the people is immense, beyond all history. Sometimes I think in all departments, literature and art included, that will be the way our superiority will exhibit itself. We will not have great individuals or great leaders, but a great average bulk, unprecedentedly great.

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I love doctors and hate their medicine.

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And I or you pocketless of a dime, may purchase the pick of the earth.

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I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable.

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To me the sea is a continual miracle; The fishes that swim - the rocks - the motion of the waves - the ships, with men in them, what stranger miracles are there?

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The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

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